🇸🇾 Syria cuisine · #14

Halawet el Jibn

Halawet el Jibn
Time60 min
Serves10
Ingredients6

Silky sheets of semolina and cheese rolled around clotted cream and doused with syrup — Hama's famous sweet.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Melt the grated cheese with syrup over low heat.
  2. Add semolina and work with a spoon to a glossy, stretchy dough.
  3. Roll thin between baking papers.
  4. Cut rectangles, add cream and roll up.
  5. Garnish with pistachios and serve with rose-water syrup.